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Many dead in 'US raid' in Pakistan

Local officials say "foreign fighters" among the dead in North Waziristan.

04 Oct 2008 03:42 GMT

Attacks in the tribal areas have killed dozens of people over several months [AFP]

Pakistani officials use the terms "Arab" and "foreigner" to describe fighters linked to al-Qaeda.

Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Islamabad, said that while there had been reports of foreign fighters killed, the bodies found in the area were badly mutilated.

There was no immediate confirmation of the attack from the Pakistani military or from the US-led forces in Afghanistan.

The attack in Mohammad Khel comes three days after a missile believed to have been fired by a US drone hit a suspected training camp in North Waziristan killing eight foreign fighters, according to officials.

Denial

The Pakistani military separately denied local reports that US helicopters and fighter jets from Afghanistan killed several people, including two women and a child, in another part of North Waziristan, earlier on Friday.

Local officials had initially claimed that a village lying just inside Pakistani territory was hit after US troops came under fire in Afghanistan's Khost province.